[1] At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. [2] Jeroboam said to
his wife, Please get up and disguise yourself, that you not be known to be
the wife of Jeroboam; and get you to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
[3] Take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him:
he will tell you what shall become of the child. [4] Jeroboam`s wife did
so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now
Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. [5]
Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you
concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you tell her; for
it will be, when she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another
woman. [6] It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came
in at the door, that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why feign you
yourself to be another? for I am sent to you with heavy news. [7] Go, tell
Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Because I exalted you from
among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel, [8] and tore
the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have
not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me
with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes, [9] but
have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you
other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me
behind your back: [10] therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of
Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him who is shut
up and him who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the
house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, until it be all gone. [11]
Him who dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him who dies
in the field shall the birds of the sky eat: for Yahweh has spoken it. [12]
Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into
the city, the child shall die. [13] All Israel shall mourn for him, and
bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him
there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the
house of Jeroboam. [14] Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over
Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even
now. [15] For Yahweh will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water;
and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their
fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made
their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger. [16] He will give Israel up
because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has
made Israel to sin. [17] Jeroboam`s wife arose, and departed, and came to
Tirzah: [and] as she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
[18] All Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet. [19] The rest of
the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. [20] The days
which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his
fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place. [21] Rehoboam the son of
Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to
reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh
had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his
mother`s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. [22] Judah did that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins
which they committed, above all that their fathers had done. [23] For they
also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill,
and under every green tree; [24] and there were also sodomites in the land:
they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh
drove out before the children of Israel. [25] It happened in the fifth year
of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;
[26] and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the
treasures of the king`s house; he even took away all: and he took away all
the shields of gold which Solomon had made. [27] King Rehoboam made in
their place shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the
captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king`s house. [28] It was
so, that as often as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard bore
them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber. [29] Now the rest of
the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren`t they written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? [30] There was war between
Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. [31] Rehoboam slept with his fathers,
and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and his mother`s name
was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.
